Established in 1969, Manohar is a publishing house and a bookseller serving individuals and libraries. We export books by mail and have a bookstore at Ansari Road in Delhi.
Manohar initially sold only rare and out of print publications, but soon branched out into local sale/export of new books published in India, and then into publishing of scholarly works under its own imprint.

19 October, 2012

The essays in this collection discuss the sources and
nature of water scarcity and conflicts in specific cases under diverse
situations in India, Europe and the USA, the manner in which they have been
handled, the mechanisms used and their effectiveness. The contributors, all
experts from different disciplines and backgrounds, are knowledgeable and
experienced in water and water management. Their papers were presented and
discussed at a conference held under the joint auspices of the ICSSR and IDPAD.
The participants included, besides the contributors, a wider group of
engineers, economists, social scientists, environmentalists, lawyers and senior
administrators. Many of them happened to combine social activism in water
issues with their professional work. Though the publication comes six years
after the seminar, events in the intervening period do not make a significant
difference to the substantial issues raised or conclusions reached.

Scarcity and conflict over water, being an important
issue in many parts of the world, provided a well-defined, concrete theme for a
meaningful transdisciplinary dialogue. Exchange of experiences and views from
different perspectives and in diverse situations helped participants see the
issues in a broader perspective.

The editors’ introduction highlights the nature of
issues involved, commonalities and differences across diverse situations, and
different approaches to coping with scarcity and resolving conflicts. It also
underscores the importance of coherent, multi-pronged action on several
interrelated fronts (technological, legal, institutional and economic). A
number of concrete and valuable practical suggestions for action and areas in
which our knowledge needs strengthening through research emerges from the
essays in this volume.

A.
Vaidyanathan currently Emeritus Professor in the Madras Institute of
Development Studies, has worked in the Indian Planning Commission, non-governmental
research institutions, and also international organizations.

H.M. Qudshoom
is a member of the UN Committee on Natural Resources, which advises Economical
and Social Council (ECOSOC) on water related issues. Currently he is Emeritus
Professor of the Delft University of Technology.

Land System and Rural Society in Early India highlights the growth and changing contours of historiography with regard to the agrarian history early India. As such it incorporates some significant early writings as well as contributions which represent research still very much is progress. The patterns of regional socio-economic transformation in the context of wider historical developments come through in many of these essays.

The introduction analyses historiographical trends and focuses on problems and issues, and flowing from it the areas and nature of controversies as well as on related themes.

The articles included here deal with aspects of rural settlements, the concept of village community, the problem of the ownership of land, agrarian change, the structure of rural society and rural unrest.

The other volumes in the series Readings in Early Indian History relate to trade, traders and networks of trade, urbanization, religion, technology and society, and women and the state in early India.

Due to geographical proximity and close cultural
affinity and for reasons of a long history of exchange of ideas, men and
commodities between India and Central Asia, a concealed chain of common
currents of culture and fascinating flickers of similarities of ethos are
noticed in numerous forms.

At a time, when Central Asia is passing through a
phase of reconnaissance and is constantly looking back and earnestly trying to
search for its identity, it is interesting to note that every Central Asian
State looks back to India for spinning the fabric of its historical and
cultural splendour. It is here in India that most of men of different brands
but of Central Asian origin showed their brilliance, acquired greatness, rose
to prominence in India and some of them were even buried on its soil—be it Amir
Khusrau, Mir Khwand, Haidar Dughlat, Bairam Khan, Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan,
Mansur, Nadir and a horde of others. Nothing can better testify to the age old
ties existing between India and Central Asia than the latter’s search for its
cultural roots, its identity and discovery of the traces of its past glory on
Indian soil.

A search into the inner recesses of Indian and
Central Asian civilizations with all their distinct deposits of new and varied
dynasties and their subsequent transformation along with their own shades of
origin and fusion had been long over due and could indeed be a purposive
venture. This book attempts to address some of the aspects of these longstanding
close friendly and diplomatic relations.

Mansura Haidar,
Chairpersons and Coordinator, Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History,
Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, possesses a brilliant academic record. She
is a distinguished and widely acknowledged scholar and has authored several
books and numerous articles on Central Asian and Indian history. Having spent
several years in Central Asia and with proficiency in various languages of the
region, she could use the medieval historical material in its original form.
Her well-documented researches therefore, carry an aura of authenticity and
academic excellence.

The late Professor Eric Stokes conducted pioneering
researches in certain areas of nineteenth-century South Asian history and
established a lively scholarly tradition at Cambridge. The English Utilitarians
in India (1959); The Peasant and the Raj
(1968); and The Pesant Armed: The Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1978)
represent major works of historical scholarship. In all his writings, as Chris
Bayly tells us, the discovery of complexity and paradox had the wider purpose
of warning against the danger of monolithic or dogmatic constructions of the
past.

This volume reflects on certain themes which formed
the bedrock of Eric Stokes’ historical
writings—History of Ideas, the 1857 upheaval, agrarian structure and peasant
struggles. It is a major contribution to the existing historical literature on
South Asia.

As one of the reviewers pointed out, ‘what the book
has done, is to bring together a significant number of well-researched,
empirically and analytically-sound papers. No mean achievement, perhaps, at a
time when rigorous, professionally-competent historical scholarship is all too
often dismissed as tainted by ‘positivism’ and insufficiently ‘theoretical’.

This revised and enlarged edition includes two essays
by C.A. Bayly and Walter Hauser.

Mushirul Hasan
(b. 1949), is Professor of History and Director of the Academy of Third World
Studies at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Having lectured widely across the
US, Europe, Australia, as well as the subcontinent, Professor Hasan has help
professorial fellowships at the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi;
the Institute of Advanced Studies, Berlin; the Centre of Oriental Studies,
Rome; the Centre of Indian Studies at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in
Paris.

This book proceeds from the co-existence of Indian
secrecy over its diplomatic records that stifles academic inquiry and the
release of significant materials from foreign archives which offers the
fascinating possibility of understanding India’s external policy through the
primary sources of others. Words written by the American, British, French and
Soviet diplomats does not just chronicle a quarter century of international
politics; it helps to understand the driving themes of the bilateral relations,
the respective expectations and the way India tried to pursue its national
interest during the Cold War.

Max-Jean Zins
is a senior researcher at the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique). He is presently attached to the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches
Internationales, Paris, and is also a member of the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde
et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris.

Gilles Boquerat is currently the head of the Department of
International Relations at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi. He is
also a member of the Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud, Paris.